Rajinder Pal

Rajinder Pal is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, as well as a fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada.

His research areas of interest lie in the rheology of dispersions, the flow of dispersions in pipelines and other process equipment, understanding the stability and demulsification of oil and water emulsions, studying column flotation, and measuring the flow of multi-phase fluids. The research area of stability and demulsification of crude oil emulsions is significant, as a large portion of the world’s crude oil is produced in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion. Professor Pal is working on novel methods for breaking the water-in-oil emulsions and is also continuing his research work on the separation of emulsified oil droplets from oily waste waters using a flotation column.

In addition to his research work, Professor Pal wrote a book and more than 100 refereed journal publications pertaining to his research areas of specialization. From 1992 to 2004, he served as Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering.

In recognition of Professor Pal’s distinguished contributions in chemical engineering before the age of 40, he received the Syncrude Canada Innovation Award in 1998 from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. He also received the 2001 Teaching Excellence Award from the UWaterloo Faculty of Engineering, as well as the Outstanding Performance Award from UWaterloo in 2009.

• Rheology of dispersions
• flow of dispersions in pipelines and other process
• stability
• demulsification of oil/water emulsions
• column flotation
• flow measurement of multi-phase fluids
• Separation Processes
• Interfacial Phenomena
• Colloids & Porous Media
• Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics
• Transport Phenomena
• Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flows

• 1987, Doctorate, PhD, University of Waterloo
• 1981, Bachelor's, BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

• CHE 313 - Applications of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Taught in 2014, 2018
• CHE 230 - Physical Chemistry 1
  • Taught in 2015
• CHE 610 - Theory and Application of Transport Phenomena
  • Taught in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• CHE 200 - Equilibrium Stage Operations
  • Taught in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
• CHE 330 - Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
  • Taught in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
• CHE 211 - Fluid Mechanics
  • Taught in 2017

• Pal, Rajinder, Modeling the Viscosity of Concentrated Nanoemulsions and Nanosuspensions, Fluids, 1(2), 2016
• Pal, Rajinder, Influence of Droplet Size on Exergy Destruction in Flow of Concentrated Non-Newtonian Emulsions, Energies, 9(4), 2016
• Pal, Rajinder, Second Law Analysis of Adiabatic and Non-Adiabatic Pipeline Flows of Unstable and Surfactant-Stabilized Emulsions, Entropy, 18(4), 2016
• Pal, Rajinder, Comment on “Effective thermal conductivity of metal and non-metal particulate composites with interfacial thermal resistance at high volume fraction of nano to macro-sized spheres”[J. Appl. Phys. 117, 055104 (2015)], Journal of Applied Physics, 117(21), 2015
• Pal, Rajinder, Viscosity models for concentrated suspensions of solid core-porous shell particles, The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 93(3), 2015, 590 - 598